Legacies of Betrayal: Let the Galaxy Burn (Horus Heresy)

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Objectively, this is a great book full of some really, really good stories; they vary widely in terms of subject matter, time frame and story length, but they all work well and are absolutely worth reading for anyone who isn’t fully caught-up with the Heresy. If you haven’t read Riven, Kryptos or The Divine Word, or if you’ve missed any of the audio dramas, then this will be an absolute treasure trove of new material shedding light on various aspects of the Heresy and linking in with the full-length novels. It’s also an absolute treat to get some of the best audio dramas in prose version, especially Honour to the Dead and Censure (perhaps some of the best stories in the whole series to date), and more than anything the overriding impression upon completion is how strong the storytelling is getting with the audios. So, I was quite surprised to see how much I enjoyed the late Aaron Alston's first book in the series. While note everything necessarily works -- Jacen's turn, while well foreshadowed still seems sudden, and Lumiya, a little know EU character's sudden appearance and large role left even me, who has a encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars universe, confused. The problem comes at the very end when the Jedi Knight Jacen Solo is tempted by the Sith to the Dark Side because his ability to see the future says that this is the best course of action to prevent death on a massive scale. The idea of the protagonist doing a bad thing to prevent a worse outcome isn't an uncommon occurrence but the way its done here is completely wrong.

There's no build up. It isn't established (clearly enough anyway) that Jacen has unshakable confidence in his clairvoyance to kill a friend.Records and activities that did not make sense, double agents and sleepers, lies, danger, and ultimately, implied threats against his family ... but Bagley's calling as a researcher and his deep desire to know the truth would not allow him to let go of this search until he found the truth. The late Allston (sadly, he passed away in 2014) wrote a few of the books in the NJO series, and I considered them to be some of the better-written ones. His strengths: he could tie numerous ongoing storylines together seamlessly, which is something not all authors can do. Others in the series tried but the results were clunky and confusing. Allston was a great writer, and he will be missed. However at the end of the book there are two short stories written by Karen Traviss, one of the best Star Wars writers I've seen in a long time.

Because the thing that ends up making Jacen go rogue is having one conversation with the Sith woman immediately after he's met her which causes him to kill a friend to keep her silent about his change of allegiance. This doesn't work for so many reasons: A collection of previously available short stories, novellas and text versions of audio dramas. A good way to catch some of the stuff you may have missed whether you don't enjoy the audio dramas, haven't gotten hold of the "exclusives" or refuse to pay the outlandish prices charged for the micro short stories. A few of them are bit out of place though, Lone Wolf and Lucius the Eternal Blade Master are bit farther in the future than anything previously published as Horus Heresy, into the Scouring for Lone Wolf perhaps and even further for Lucius. An assault is planned on Corellia, one that is generating controversy as Corellians (including Han) currently living on Coruscant are facing strong anti-Corellian sentiments by other Coruscanti. Acts of protest and other violent outbursts are happening more frequently. The GA has started branding Corellian troublemakers as “terrorists”. The grand high masters of lucasville have clearly forgotten what Star Wars started as, and are losing much of their fan base in the process. I enjoyed this novella. No mind blowing plot twists, but a good insight on White Scars, the way they fight, think, their traditions. Loved the fact that they were presented to us from different perspectives - both from inside the legion and from an outside observer.There is a lot of stuff going on in this novel, as it is setting the stage for the following eight books. For the most part, Allston does a stellar job. Legacy of the Force: Betrayal is the story of Jacen Solo, the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia, and the beginning of his journey towards the Dark Side of the Force. Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9114 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA409843 Openlibrary_edition I've been on a Star Wars bent lately and decided to read the "Legacy of the Force" series despite its less than stellar reputation. In all honesty this book was pretty good until the very end. The premise of the book is a decent enough one: I just felt like the argument wasn't presented well and Jacen's sudden turn and flat-out murder of his random friend was really sudden and weird.

Only from out of great conflict can true heroes arise. With the galaxy aflame and war on an unimaginable scale tearing the Imperium apart, champions of light and darkness venture onto countless fields of battle in service to their masters. Stranger things than xenos and mutants dwell in the dark places between the stars – things known only too well to the inhabitants of Davin. Cult priest Thoros calls upon the favour of his patron gods to aid him in casting out the pretenders and non-believers, for only the true disciples of Chaos can be allowed to rule the galaxy... [1] Related Articles Six years after his retirement from the CIA, Bagley was startled by an unlikely coincidence. “Two deaths—each purportedly a suicide, each with its deep roots in the secret world, each with its own perplexing mysteries” caught his attention in 1978. Bagley was living in Brussels after stepping down as CIA station chief there. One of the men who died was a KGB defector who had provided invaluable information to the agency. The other was a long-serving CIA senior officer. In both cases, the circumstances made it clear to Bagley that suicide was unlikely. And as he dug deeply into the available (and sometimes secret) facts, he became convinced that neither had killed himself.This book was slightly better then the last few Star Wars I've tried, including a number of amusing references to previous events, both in-universe and out (Tycho asked, "Is Han-" "He's fine," Leia said. "Han shot first.") to the point where I was very surprised to finish the book without running onto one "I've got a bad feeling about this." Bagley himself was unable to follow his brothers at Annapolis because of his “dodgy eyesight.” His career in the CIA was distinguished, involving him in some of the agency’s biggest wins over the years. Colleagues believed he would some day become Director of the CIA. This was not a man to himself betray his county, as some in the CIA maintained.